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Dota 2: Thoughts 400 Hours In

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Dota 2: Thoughts 400 Hours In

It definitely needs to be said first that I, Cole Olson, have only played this game for 400 hours. That is it – 400 hours with probably around 50 alone dicking around with bots but do you know why I spent 100 hours dicking around with bots? Because I’ve heard such atrocious things about the […]

Lycanthia: Oligarchy

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Lycanthia: Oligarchy

Sometimes we kind of have this “thing” for Gothic metal, especially of the black variety, or perhaps with a touch of “the doom” for extra thickness.  When properly combined these things create  a tragic beast.  It’s the kind of thing denied by God as something which may exist, the kind of thing that gets you […]

Den Saakaldte: Faen i Helvete

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Den Saakaldte: Faen i Helvete

Do you guys like oatmeal? Because this review is oatmeal based. Oatmeal is great because of all the varieties of food that it can be mixed with such as berries, peanut butter, yogurt, jelly, cinnamon, protein powders, etc,.. Black metal is oatmeal and this bowl has been prepared by Den Saakaldte with their album, Faen […]

Interview with The Teeth (Not Those Indie Guys)

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Interview with The Teeth (Not Those Indie Guys)

With all the post-hardcore and hardcore mess we tend to receive around here, it was inevitable that we at Deaf Sparrow would receive a submission from a band that was one, not French, and two, good.  That would be The Teeth, whose second full-length we reviewed a few weeks ago.  With a new tour coming […]

Compilation Dissertation: Fuck the Underground Volume 1

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Compilation Dissertation: Fuck the Underground Volume 1

New feature folks, and here it is.  Sometimes we get compilations around here, and we’re always at odds with how to exactly approach a review.  Do we simply go over it as any submission, picking out a few tidbits on which you may gnaw?  A few stale crumbs on which you may piss?  And then […]

The Vault: Pollution – N.S. Drugs

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The Vault: Pollution – N.S. Drugs

Here it is folks, a resurrection, the first resurrection, maybe the only resurrection you’re ever going to need.  A new feature we’re going to do around here is hereby called “The Vault,” but maybe we’ll change that sometime in the future.  Basically, old reviews from the original site will be reposted here, if we feel they’re […]

Lions of Tsavo: Traverser

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Lions of Tsavo: Traverser

When using the Google machine to research these lads, the Wikipedia page for the actual lions of Tsavo appears. The story is rather brutal and suits the music well. Back in the day when they were building a railroad over the Tsavo River in Kenya, the British led by Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson, two […]

Fuck This: Faith No More – Tribute of the Year, Disk 2

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Fuck This: Faith No More – Tribute of the Year, Disk 2

Shortly after completing part one of “Fuck This: Tribute of the Year“, I began to feel ill. I’m not making this up. For about three weeks, I felt malaised, lethargic… unwell. I’m a productive type and I lead a very busy life. To that end, I often don’t sleep enough or eat properly, but this […]

Squash Bowels/Parricide: Old Grindfathers and Their Grind

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Squash Bowels/Parricide: Old Grindfathers and Their Grind

Ahhh, grind, probably the one genre in metal that refuses to go anywhere, it’s completely content.  You see the same thing with older veins of hardcore.  If you appreciate it for what it is, then hey, why not?  Otherwise ‘not’ is your only option.  Squash Bowels is a goregrind band from out of Poland, which […]

Verdant: Sincerity

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Verdant: Sincerity

God the artwork on this thing…  Now and then you come across an album where the artwork, or in this case photography, basically does justice to the actual sound therein.  Every song on this feels like what you see, it even sounds like it in its best moments, like the inside of some old mausoleum […]

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